Conservative estimates have the number of different cranberry sauces she’s tasted over the years at somewhere around 37, so that’s very high praise indeed. While the taste of this sauce is an unmitigated success, the name is another story.

You’ll have to forgive me, but when you post as many recipes as I do, once in a while you just have to give “half the peace sign” to those search engine algorithms, and simply amuse yourself. The “mango” and the “cran” in the name are obvious, but the “bango” comes from a few drops of hot sauce featuring the infamous ghost pepper.

I’m not sure if it’s the hottest pepper in the world, but the Bhut Jolokia is right up there. You can get the actual pepper if you look hard enough, but I had a bottle of Dave's Ghost Pepper Hot Sauce in the fridge, which worked perfectly.

It’s amazing how hot this stuff really is, and a few drops were all I needed. Believe it or not, more than just providing a searing heat, the pepper is actually celebrated for its fruity sweetness as well. By the way, while it may look like blatant product placement in the video, I can assure you I was not paid to use this specific brand (not that I’d be above such a thing…Dave, call me).

Anyway, if you’re looking for a creative, unusual, yet still relatively familiar fresh cranberry sauce for your holiday table, I hope you give this a try. Enjoy!

The real deal you showed me how to make has been the standard at Thanksgiving and has been a big hit. I will now do both and can't resist this one because of the included garam massala, of which I have plenty ;)

GreetingsRealize this is not the right place but wanted to ask you about the BB grill you use. It seems to say Weber in one of your old recipes and I just saw the one for the tail gate chicken skewers done on the grill. I have a weber charcoal one but it looks nothing like yours. Yours looks really cool but I have been unable to find it on line.Any help would be greatly appreciated.ThanksGene in Texas

Just made this tonight to "practice" for Thanksgiving. It was SOOO good. Only change I made was I put a half a habanero in at the beginning instead of the hot sauce at the end. And I ate a whole bowl HOT!

By the way, I absolutely LOOOOOVE your blog! All of my Thanksgiving dinner menu consists of your recipes. I've recommended your site to most of my friends and family. Thank you so much...love the humor!

Chef John,Awesome recipes -- I made the french onion green bean today and it was awesome... I prepared the cranberry sauce with habanero instead of ghost pepper and it was fantastic. Thanks for all that you do!

The recipe is great! Two of our men who don't like the Sauce have tried yours and said that it's "good". One person who'd never tried/heard about the Sauce before said that she liked it (which means a lot!). Finally, a friend of mine got excited when she learned she'd got to keep the Sauce all to herself and finished it the next morning! Thank you for the recipe!